Fountain’s wife made a batch of 30 chocolate cupcakes for their son Hunter’s classmates at Schall Elementary School in the town of Caro. The 9-year-old helped decorate the treats with plastic figurines representing World War Two soldiers.

The following morning Fountain said his wife delivered the cupcakes to the front office. The secretary complimented her on the decorations and then took the cakes to Hunter’s class.

“About 15 minutes later the school called my wife and told her the couldn’t serve the cupcakes because the soldiers had guns,” Fountain told Fox News. “My wife told them to remove the soldiers and serve the cupcakes anyway — and I believe she may have used more colorful language.”

The school complied and confiscated the soldiers — sending them home with Hunter in a bag.

“I was offended,” Fountain said. “I support our soldiers and what they stand for. These (plastic soldiers) are representations of World War Two soldiers – our greatest generation. If they aren’t allowed in our schools — who is?”

Principal Susan Wright released a statement to local media defending the decision.

“These are toys that were commonplace in the past,” she wrote. “However, some parents prohibit all guns as toys. In light of that difference, the school offered to replace the soldiers with another item and the soldiers were returned home with the student.”

“Living in a democratic society entails respect for opposing opinions,” she stated. “In the climate of recent events in schools we walk a delicate balance in teaching non-violence in our buildings and trying to ensure a safe, peaceful atmosphere.”

Fountain said it was beyond outrageous to compare American soldiers to deranged mass murderers.

“In our politically correct society they can’t separate the good from the bad,” he said. ”I’m sure hammers are allowed in schools — although a lot of people are killed by hammers.”

Principal Wright explained in her statement that she meant no disrespect to the military.

“By not permitting toy soldiers on cupcakes at school, no disrespect for our military or for the brave men and women who defend our rights to have our differences was intended,” she wrote. “Our commitment is always to our children and creating a safe place for them to learn, grow and have respectful dialogues about their differences.”

Fountain said his little boy is aware of the controversy but doesn’t quite understand what all the fuss is about.

“He’s nine-years-old,” Fountain said. “He was just glad to get his soldiers back.”

“It’s not about a toy,” he said. “It’s not about a cupcake. It’s what the toy represents — and we’re just taking political correctness too far.”

What to do about this?

Don’t send your kids to Frank E. Schall Elementary School in Caro, Michigan. Or to any school like it. Here’s why:

If your local school authorities expect you to trust them with your kids, but they don’t trust you, the parents, enough to let you into the school when class is in session, something is terribly wrong. This should have been obvious even without the cupcake incident.

In the wave of all of the media attention and tragedy surrounding schools and the safety of our students and staff, Schall Elementary has a new safety policy for parents and visitors.

Effective immediately, no adults, except school personnel, will be allowed past the office entrance before 8:15a.m. without administrator permission. Parents and visitors will not be allowed past the office until after 3:30p.m. If you have something that needs to go to your child’s classroom a staff member will deliver it for you. If you need to contact a teacher, a phone call, written note or e-mail are your first options. Appointments can be made with 24 hour notice. Our office door will be locked so parents and visitors will need to knock and we will unlock the door for you.

Volunteers are welcome at Schall with prior arrangement with a teacher and must have cleared the required state background check (state law). Parents and relatives continue to be welcome for lunch visits and are required to have a background check.

Thank you for your understanding and for following these changes for the safety of our children and our staff.

l Susan Wright released a statement to local media defending the decision.

“Living in a democratic society entails respect for opposing opinions,” she stated. “In the climate of recent events in schools we walk a delicate balance in teaching non-violence in our buildings and trying to ensure a safe, peaceful atmosphere”

Really Susan Wright? Please tell the country about the long term epidemic of constant bullying and ever growing number of bullies within your school. The only people I see working to stop this nation wide problem is Focus Adolescent Services, whose work I have followed for two decades. Perhaps you could sell the cupcakes or reach into your pocket and send them a gift for the job you seem to be unable to do.